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“Caroline first took an interest in me after I wrote an essay about growing up in New Haven. Yale was an obsession of hers; she’d been rejected and never got over it. The fact that I was a Yale townie won me an invitation to her West Village apartment” thecut.io/34yy9gS
“A year after Caroline and I met, the world was introduced to Caroline Calloway the influencer” thecut.io/34yy9gS 
“I never felt better than when viewed through Caroline’s eyes. But a year later, I came across the journal I’d kept on [our trip to Sicily] and realized how bitter I’d been” thecut.io/34yy9gS
“I was the one who offered to spend the summer editing Caroline’s Instagram posts to pay her back ... I was barely holding my life together. Working off the $800 or so I owed Caroline was the only plan I had” thecut.io/34yy9gS
“Caroline’s West Village studio was sitting unoccupied, so I asked if I could sublet for a few months for a reduced rate in exchange for working on captions. Caroline agreed” thecut.io/34yy9gS
“‘That Caroline girl is bad news,’ my mom kept telling me, echoing what all my friends had been saying since I came back from Sicily. ‘Yeah, no sh*t,’ I’d reply” thecut.io/34yy9gS
“That September, I finally got the call. Caroline was back in New York, her book proposal was due after the weekend, and she needed my help” thecut.io/34yy9gS
“I knew my job was to be present but invisible, but it still hurt to hear secondhand about the high-powered meetings, the gushing over pages I half-wrote. But how could I complain? In the end, Flat Iron agreed to pay $375,000 for the book” thecut.io/34yy9gS
“Caroline revealed to me that for all these years, she had been lying about her origin story. She hadn’t, in fact, gotten famous from a picture of macarons on Instagram’s favorites page” thecut.io/34yy9gS
“To Caroline the ploy was a statement of intent: She was a self-made woman exploiting a new form of media. ‘Women spend too much time apologizing for promoting their work,’ she told me” thecut.io/34yy9gS
